Shout Factory has revealed that it is planning to bring to Blu-ray John Flynn's cult film Rolling Thunder (1977), starring William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Haynes. The release will be available for purchase online and in stores across the United States on April 9th.

Exact technical specs and supplemental features to be included on this release are yet to be revealed.

A revered revenge classic co-written by Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver) and starring William Devane in a stoic performance as Major Charles Rane, a man who has been pushed beyond his limits during an eight year incarceration in the Hanoi Hilton. He returns to his Texas hometown with his friend Sergeant Vohden (Tommy Lee Jones), just a vague shadow of the man he used to be. Finding himself a local celebrity and awarded with a briefcase of silver dollars- one for every day he was a POW, he tries to adapt to civilian life with his wife (Linda Haynes), who is now engaged to another man, and his son, who doesn't remember him. But any chance at healing is destroyed when a gang of thugs show up at his house to steal the silver. Tragedy thus descends on Major Rane a second time, stealing whatever shred of humanity was in him, and sending him on a one-way mission: vengeance at any cost.

I have the UK release too and I hope the soundtrack and picture gets cleaned up some more for release here. Also, Linda Haynes does not play Rane's wife but the girl who gives him the silver dollars and goes on the road trip with him.

I have the UK release too and I hope the soundtrack and picture gets cleaned up some more for release here. Also, Linda Haynes does not play Rane's wife but the girl who gives him the silver dollars and goes on the road trip with him.

And I hope that they don't touch what they have - assuming that it might be the same transfer the UK release uses. One of the reasons why this film looks like film is because they did not try to "clean up".